small flash cards for low prize?

[James Knott]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>
> You may wonder why I am asking such strange question...
>
> We all know that costs of flash memory sticks drops down like crazy. A
> something that was 100 $ a 5 years ago is now ... well.. it is nowhere
> now.
>
> I would love to buy even a 1 MB SSD USB memory stick for 1 $. I would
> buy them perhaps in 100 amount. Why?
>
> Because thats a great medium for advertising: lets imagine that I am
> at a big international conference of physicists and I would like to
> everyone who become interested in my poster presentation to handle a
> digital copy of presentation plus other works I did during last 53
> years. Sure, I could give a copy of CD. But SSD memory stick is easier
> to handle. CD they will throw away while that small device they will
> keep for ever near to their garbage can. And what if it was somewhat
> more than 1.2 MB ? Than we could put a copy of Slackware 1.0 there as
> well...
>

A device that size has less capacity than a floppy and would therefore
be essentially useless these days.  Also, you won't save much by making
one with so little capacity.  Companies are giving away 1 GB and more as
promotional items.
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